Oral composition and method for enhancing tasting capability and tasting intelligence

Abstract

An oral composition and a method for enhancing tasting capability and tasting intelligence involve applying the oral composition of a specific design to a user's mouth, wherein the specific design comprises allowing the oral composition to release successively one or more stimulating factors in the user's mouth over time; allowing the oral composition to provide the user with an innovative tasting experience constructed from music-like, graduated, rhythmic tasting and mouthfeel while the stimulating factors successively dissolve in and release to the user's mouth in a predetermined manner; and conducting diagnosis, training and/or enhancement of tasting capability and/or tasting intelligence of the user based on the user's individual music-like, graduated, rhythmic tasting and mouthfeel.

1 . A method for enhancing tasting capability and tasting intelligence, the method comprising steps of:
 (a) providing an oral composition of a specific design and applying the oral composition to a mouth of a user, wherein the specific design comprises allowing the oral composition to release successively one or more stimulating factors in the user's mouth over time;   (b) allowing the oral composition to provide the user with an innovative tasting experience constructed from music-like, graduated, rhythmic tasting and mouthfeel while the stimulating factors successively dissolve in and release to the user's mouth in a predetermined manner; and   (c) conducting diagnosis, training and/or enhancement of tasting capability and/or tasting intelligence of the user based on the user's individual music-like, graduated, rhythmic tasting and mouthfeel.   
     
     
         2 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the innovative tasting experience is reproducible by repeatedly performing the steps. 
     
     
         3 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the oral composition has a form selected from the group consisting of powder, particles, a tablet, a quasi-tablet, a capsule and any combination thereof. 
     
     
         4 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the predetermined manner comprises determining rhythmic dissolution and release of the individual stimulating factors in the user's mouth, and controlling sequence, velocity and duration of the dissolution and release of each said stimulating factor. 
     
     
         5 . The method of  claim 4 , wherein the predetermined manner comprises releasing one or more said stimulating factors simultaneously. 
     
     
         6 . The method of  claim 4 , wherein the predetermined manner comprises allowing the stimulating factors to have different velocity of the dissolution and release. 
     
     
         7 . The method of  claim 4 , wherein the predetermined manner comprises allowing the stimulating factors to produce different kinds of tasting stimulation. 
     
     
         8 . The method of  claim 7 , wherein the different kinds of tasting stimulation comprises sourness, sweetness, bitterness, spiciness, and saltiness. 
     
     
         9 . The method of  claim 4 , wherein the predetermined manner comprises allowing the stimulating factors to generate the mouthfeel in different natures and intensities. 
     
     
         10 . The method of  claim 9 , wherein the mouthfeel comprises stimulation as touch or quasi-touch acting on the user's oral mucosa or tongue. 
     
     
         11 . An oral composition for enhancing tasting capability and tasting intelligence, the oral composition comprising:
 a main body, containing at least one carrier each having a plurality of different stimulating factors, wherein the stimulating factors are qualitatively or quantitatively different, and the carrier is to be applied to a mouth of a user so that the stimulating factors contained therein are released to the user's mouth in a predetermined manner, thereby providing the user with an innovative tasting experience constructed from music-like, graduated, rhythmic tasting and mouthfeel.   
     
     
         12 . The oral composition of  claim 11 , wherein the different stimulating factors are for producing different kinds of tasting stimulation. 
     
     
         13 . The oral composition of  claim 11 , wherein the different stimulating factors are for generating the mouthfeel in different natures. 
     
     
         14 . The oral composition of  claim 11 , the different stimulating factors are for generating the tasting and mouthfeel in different intensities. 
     
     
         15 . The oral composition of  claim 11 , wherein the main body is composed of a single carrier, and the carrier contains at least one stimulating factor. 
     
     
         16 . The oral composition of  claim 15 , wherein the carrier is covered by at least one coating made of a material that forms no tasting stimulation. 
     
     
         17 . The oral composition of  claim 11 , wherein the main body contains a plurality of carriers each having at least one stimulating factor, and the carriers are concentrically layered with at least one coating arranged therebetween in which the coating is made of a material that forms no tasting stimulation. 
     
     
         18 . The oral composition of  claim 11 , wherein the main body is a film-based shell that has an opening and is filled with stacked carriers each having at least one stimulating factor, in which the film-based shell is made of a material that forms no tasting stimulation and is hardly soluble or has a dissolving rate lower than a dissolving rate of any said stimulating factor, while at least one coating made of a material that forms no tasting stimulation is arranged between the stimulating factors. 
     
     
         19 . The oral composition of  claim 11 , wherein the main body is formed by a plurality of carriers that are concentrically layered as separate areas, in which each said area contains at least one stimulating factor and has at least one releasing direction. 
     
     
         20 . The oral composition of  claim 11 , wherein the main body is formed by a plurality of carriers that are assembled as separate areas, in which each said area contains at least one stimulating factor and has at least one releasing direction.